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• It's a necessary quality of a diplomat or a politician that he will compromise. Uncompromising politicians or diplomats get you into the most terrible trouble.

  John Keegan

  Quality, Diplomats, Trouble

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• Compromise: An agreement between two men to do what both agree is wrong.

  Lord Edward Cecil

  Men, Two, Political

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• But just as they did in Philadelphia when they were writing the constitution, sooner or later, you've got to compromise. You've got to start making the compromises that arrive at a consensus and move the country forward.

  Colin Powell

  Country, Moving, Writing

  "Bayh Indictment of Washington Causes Little Soul Searching". www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2010.

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• Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!

  Catherine Doherty

  Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Mary Achterhoff (1992). “Grace in every season: through the year with Catherine Doherty : daily reflections”, Servant Pubns

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• We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God's promises in every area of our lives.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Promise, Made, Areas

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• The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

  John Owen

  World, Sin, Shame

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.343

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• Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Lying, Real

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• You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Guilt, Sin, Knows

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.128, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The opposite of compromise is character.

  Frederick Douglass

  Character, Opposites

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• We live in age of compromise, but if we stand on the bedrock of God’s truth, we will not bend with the winds of relativism and faithlessness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Wind, Age, Bedrock

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• I believe in friendly compromise. I said over in the Senate hearings that truth is the glue that holds government together. Compromise is the oil that makes governments go.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Believe, Government, Oil

  Gerald R. Ford's remarks on his nomination to be Vice-President during hearings before the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary, November 15, 1973.

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• Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Philosophical, Years, Tolerance

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• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  Barack Obama

  Music, Powerful, Pieces

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• Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy

  Phyllis McGinley

  Life, Spices, Nations

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Two Extremes, Imbalance, Causes

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• Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.

  Eric Berne

  Gambling, Games, Intimacy

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• For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.

  Barack Obama

  Believe, Memorable, People

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• Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.

  Zig Ziglar

  Workout, Fitness Motivational, Gym Motivational

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• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Mean, Suffering, Liberty

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• When a Caltech student asked the eminent cosmologist Michael Turner what his "bias" was in favoring one or another particle as a likely candidate to compromise dark matter in the universe, Feynmann snapped, "Why do you want to know his bias? Form your own bias!"

  Richard P. Feynman

  Learning, Dark, Want

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• The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

  Mark Twain

  Business, Men, Double Standard

  Following the Equator ch. 13, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)

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• Get a job and when you earn a little bit of money, then you can do more good. Then bringing your values doesn't mean you have to compromise yourself. You got to get over this idea that you can't work for a big corporation, or for big oil or bigger pharma, because actually, those are some of the great jobs are and you can do good there.

  Dana Perino

  Jobs, Mean, Ideas

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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  Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

  Dalai Lama

  Peace, Nature, Inspiration

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.77, Univ of California Press

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• Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die

  Gary Hirshberg

  Business, Quality, Management

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